Friday, December 28, 2018

Here is the second half of our
annual news roundup.The second half
(July through December) always ends up being longer than the first half because
the evets seem more timely and less outdated than what happened during the
first half of the year.To cut to the
chase, however::

Thursday, December 27, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, with the publication of “Tract 90,” John
Henry Newman inadvertently gave leverage to the enemies of the Oxford
Movement.By playing on the fears of “creeping
(or galloping) Romanism,” the more liberal (in the bad sense) elements in the
Church of England were able to undermine and eventually marginalize almost
completely the effort to return to orthodoxy.

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Watching “cop
shows” on television it is easy to get the impression that a police officer’s work
is a constant round of burglaries, bar fights, “domestic incidents,”
investigating crooked cops, murders, and (if it’s a comedy) lots of doughnuts.Television cops (the funny ones, anyway) have
a hunger for doughnuts that would shame Homer Simpson.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas from the Just Third Way! And if you don't have anything else to do, why don't you go back and read some of the postings over the past year in preparation for the next? Otherwise, have fun!

Monday, December 24, 2018

Yes, since we're taking the day off in everything else (not the night, though), we're also letting the blog slide today and tomorrow. If you get lonely, of course, listen to some of the musical free samples for Christmas Eve available here. We recommend "Santa Geh Gesunder Heit." And a sample is about all you can take. Otherwise,

Friday, December 21, 2018

This week in addition to some
current events (which you will find at the end of this posting), we have the
first half of the annual news roundup from the Just Third Way, from January
through June.One of the things we found
ironic was our commenting in the first “News from the Network” for 2018 that
the newly achieved “25,000 Dow” was making some people nervous.Given the market shakeup over the past few
weeks, that seems to have been warranted.It does, however, tend to make the Just Third Way more attractive:

Thursday, December 20, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, John Henry Newman’s goal when he
published “Tract 90,” otherwise known as “Remarks on Certain Passages in the
Thirty-Nine Articles,” was not to try and turn the Church of England into the
Catholic Church.Rather, it was to show
the continuity of doctrine in both churches and their fundamental agreement on
what makes Christianity specifically Christianity.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, in his landmark social encyclical Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII managed to
do two things that took the socialists, modernists, and New Agers off
guard.One, he followed up on the series
of social encyclicals that had started with Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos in 1832 with an unexpected twist.Instead of simply condemning the “new things”
of the modern world, he presented an alternative that could deliver what
socialism, modernism, and the New Age only promised, and that without sacrificing
one iota of the natural law or Catholic doctrine.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, worried that the Church of England might
return to orthodoxy and undermine or repudiate all the gains that had been made
by “the democratic religion” or New Christianity that was intended to replace
traditional political and religious institutions, the “Broad Church” faction
comprised of socialists, modernists, unitarians, and even followers of esoteric
cults whipped up fear of “Romanism” among the Evangelical faction that adhered
to traditional Christian beliefs.

Monday, December 17, 2018

Today
we have a reprise of Podcast Number 11 on What is Money? and Capital
Homesteading. These are questions that are of interest to everyone, so it
is useful to rerun one of the podcasts on them every now and then just to keep
people up to date:

Friday, December 14, 2018

Although things often slow down as
the holidays draw near and the end of the year approaches, people involved in
the Just Third Way movement have been seeing a lot of action, so to speak.A number of projects are coming to fruition,
such as the prototype instructional video, some major publications, and a
revived newsletter.We’re also come
across some interesting ideas that might be integrated into the Justice
University project.Then there’s the
international and national scene:

Thursday, December 13, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, given ordinary circumstances, moral
questions tend to get away from the gray shadings and drift into black and
white.They never really get there, of
course, but as a general rule, as Fulton Sheen was fond of saying, “Right is
right if nobody does it, wrong is wrong if everybody does it.”

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, the adherents of the “democratic
religion” of socialism — which also encompassed what became known as modernism
and the New Age — became adamantine opponents of John Henry Newman and the
Oxford Movement when it became obvious that the tenets of the New Christianity
could in no way be reconciled with orthodox beliefs.As G.K. Chesterton would note a century or so
later, the “Hampden Affair” revealed the profound differences between traditional
religion (Orthodoxy, 1908) and the
invention of a new religion under the name of Christianity (Saint Francis of Assisi, 1923).

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

This past Sunday
marked the thirty-ninth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton John
Sheen (1895-1979).Ordinarily we would
have posted any reflection on his thought pertaining to the Just Third Way on
that day.We don’t post on Sunday, however,
and yesterday was the day reserved for CESJ’s “electronic apostolate” (so to
speak), and Sheen would have been the first one to appreciate the fact that “the
show must go on.”

Monday, December 10, 2018

This week’s video
broadcast is a show first aired on December 21, 2016, an episode of The Challenge With Russell Williams,
featuring Dr. Norman G. Kurland as a guest.While the show is fairly short at less than half an hour, we’re sure you’ll
want to tune in:

Friday, December 7, 2018

While it certainly seems as if good
news travels so slowly that it never seems to arrive, a number of projects that
have been in the works for years are nearing at least the initial stages of
completion or fulfillment.CESJ still
has a need for volunteers to handle the routine organizational administrate tasks
as well as take over some key (but understaffed) projects, but every
organization and movement can say the same thing.CESJ’s most critical need at this point is
people willing to learn about the Just Third Way and who will take advantage of
the vast amount of material available free on the
CESJ website, such as the free e-books.There are, of course, publications for sale, and we encourage you to
purchase them, but try the
free stuff first . . . don’t cost nothing. . . And in the meantime:

Thursday, December 6, 2018

It is traditional
in economics and finance to accept the principle that new capital formation is
utterly impossible without saving.Nobody ever got something for nothing, and nobody ever will.What about gifts and charity, you ask?What about them?If someone gives you a gift or alms, you owe
gratitude.You don’t get something for
nothing.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

In the
previous posting on this subject we began by complaining about a
book without embarrassing the author by giving the title or the name of the
author.The book exists, though, even if
it does not appear to have sold very well.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

As we saw in the
previous posting on this subject, John Henry Newman and the others of the
Oxford Movement were confronted with something they were ill-prepared to deal
with, and up to a point did not even realize what the real problem was.With the Industrial and French Revolutions a
new idea had grown up regarding the real purpose of religion — and it did not
have too much to do with God, as Fulton Sheen would point out in the next
century.

Monday, December 3, 2018

While the Just
Third Way Podcast is on Holiday Hiatus we decided it was the perfect
opportunity to run a number of the videos that cover Just Third Way
subjects.This particular one, a Molly
Cheshire Show interview featuring Norman Kurland, president of CESJ, is especially
interesting: